Art Film shot on HDC27HP Varicam & Go Pro Hero 5 Black

Mike Krumlauf

Mike Krumlauf

Award Winning Filmmaker

The go pro stuff is only in the beginning, the rest I did on my varicam. The look was achieved in camera, no post work was done to the images. I used a Fuji SD B4 Zoom, the EC3 paintbox to create my looks, and a $20 LED light from amazon. I also used a fog machine to add a bit of smoke for atmosphere. Recorded on the AJA KiProMini in DNxHD and mastered the video in 1080p Prores.

Another testimate that the old varicam is not dead yet!
 
The size of the camera does not really bother me too much, i actually enjoy the weight as it can help stablize the image on handheld shots and i do get a much needed workout if i do long handheld takes. The industry has moved to lightweight cameras like the DV cameras i grew up on years ago which I think is great, but, for whatever reason I can't get myself to like the images coming from the cameras that cost new what i paid for my varicam package used (all together around $5000). I think the CCD cinema cameras have something that CMOS cameras just can't touch. The varicam and even its SD cuz, the SDX900 really make beautiful images when used correctly.
 
R&G - it's there - embedded in his post on my browser (Safari)... you might need to check your browser settings and the plug-in's - to see if that might be the culprit.
As for the video, Mike - the camera itself looks good. (I honestly stopped the video about half way thru and then skimmed thru the 2nd half - perhaps I'm a bit prudish - but I started thinking I was about to - and didn't want to see the ole skin tones of the Vari on a naked dude.)
I never owned either the sdx900 or the original Vari - but having shots lots with them (along with some of the hdx and then even the 2700) - I still sometimes pine for those days. Honestly, the only camera announcements to peak my attn since buying my FS7 over 2 yrs ago - was the LT.
Also - just noticed the resolution on Vimeo says 720 .. did you upres the edit only to downres to Vimeo? Or is this just an odd thing with vimeo?
 
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Weird. I'm using Safari on El Capitan and I don't see ANYTHING embedded. Maybe a plus-in has expired, or something similar(seems like Flash needs an update every few hours with Apple... Lol). I did run into an issue several months ago with YouTube and had to do something to be able to view it on Safari. I believe it was perfectly fine on Chrome, though.
 
hmmm... try this. Go to Safari >Preferences > Security > make sure Allow Plug-In's is checked (at bottom) and then click on Plug-In Settings. For Adobe Flash - see if dvxuser is listed (make sure you have this site currently open when you do this) and make sure it's configured to "On".
Ran into this some time back and pretty sure this is how I fixed it. (I'm running Sierra but it should be pretty much the same)
 
markfpv: Checked the settings and it was turned off. Safari must do it automatically when Flash becomes "out of date". Turned them back on and DL'd the latest version. Restarted Safari and then Mike's embedded video was there.
 
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